Word: uac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas Rosch '61, an ex-cheerleader, yesterday called the plan, which will allow both the old and new squads to cheer as a unit at the Yale game, "a condescension, not a compromise." He continued, "if the UAC had been sincere in desiring a peaceful solution, they would have attempted some compromise for the Brown and Princeton games...
...addition, the Women's Auxiliary Cheering Squad will be valuable athletically. Why should the Buffalo team have their Bisonettes when the Crimson only has John Harvard? Even Radcliffe's detractors cannot anticipate trouble from the UAC, which dismissed the recent cheerleaders on the grounds that they were unknown and failed to stimulate the crowd...
...most controversial aspect of the UAC's action, however, is its timing. Instead of waiting for the 1959 season to introduce its athlete-cheerleaders, the Council chose to plump them right into the middle of this fall's schedule. This is somewhat unfair to the present cheerleaders, who went out for the job with at least a tacit understanding that they would finish the season and had no forewarning of their sudden demise...
Council members admit that their decision is hard on the cheerleaders, but they clearly didn't make it with punishment or hard feelings in mind. They simply believe that a corps of athletes for next year's cheerleading could never be recruited and organized unless this year's UAC gets some experience at the job and goes through the possible embarrassment of breaking the ice on a new system...
This dramatic mid-season shift, and the bitterness it has caused, may, however, have increased the troubles for the new system rather than eased them. In view of the unfairness to the present cheerleaders, and in view of the very tentative advantages of the UAC scheme itself, the Council might well have done better to wait half a year. And its new cheerleaders may agree when, with one week's practice, they man the megaphones for the first time in Palmer Stadium...